What can you do best for Christ?
May 21, 2010 by Rob Westwood-Payne
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What do you do best in the Body of Christ – the church? This is the question members of Cradley Heath Songsters of The Salvation Army will consider as they meet with other members of The Salvation Army Church in Cradley Heath for a retreat day.
This special occasion will be led by Majors Steve & Mandy White from West Midlands Divisional Headquarters. It has been designed to help us discover our spiritual gifts and how best we can use them in the service for Christ in his church.
The day commences at 10:30am with morning worship. After a coffee break, two sessions: How can we best serve? and The purpose of gifts, the latter of which will include a spiritual gift assessment.
After a faith lunch, there are further sessions, including: The discovery of gifts, The value of personality (which includes a personal style assessment), The influence of passion (including a ministry passion assessment) and The promise of ministry before a final worship session, The power of love.
We are praying that during this time God will reveal to us gifts and skills which can be used in his service. Our church will be enriched and our work in reaching out to the people in our community in Cradley Heath with the message of Jesus will be enhanced as we our brought into a closer relationship with God. Would you please consider joining us in this prayer?
N.B. Our usual evening worship at 6:00pm on Sunday will be cancelled on this occasion.
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Rob Westwood-Payne grew up in The Salvation Army at Norwich Citadel. He left Norwich to study at the University of Warwick and became fully involved in the music centre there culminating in his conducting Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue to a full house in Symphony Hall in Birmingham. He also transferred to The Salvation Army at Coventry City, where he became Songster Leader at the age of 21. He was made Songster Leader at Cradley Heath in April 1998 shortly before marrying Gail in the following October. He is a former leader of the West Midlands Divisional Youth Chorus and is currently Programme Director at the West Midlands Divisional Summer School for The Salvation Army. He is an Associate Solicitor in the Licensing Team of a national practice based in the south west.